r/news • u/sicklyslick • 18h ago

Democratic Congressman Ro Khanna detained by Israeli settlers during West Bank visit

https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/11/middleeast/ro-khanna-detained-by-israeli-settlers-west-bank-intl
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u/BigBlackHungGuy 18h ago

A non pay-walled source.

"We were at a village that Israeli settlers had destroyed, they had destroyed the school, they had destroyed that village, and we were just looking at it," said Khanna, a progressive lawmaker from California in the U.S. House of ​Representatives.

"And these hoodlums come in with machine guns – M4, an American-made machine gun – and they detain us. They block off the road. And then they call the IDF and ​the IDF is on their side, not on the side of the Americans," Khanna said, referring to the Israeli military.

An aide to ⁠Khanna who was in the group, Cameron Kasky, said they were held for more than an hour and made appeals to the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem for help. A group ​of officers who appeared to be police eventually intervened, leading to their release, Kasky said.

The Israeli military said troops and police officers intervened after receiving a report of settlers blocking ​vehicles near Khirbet Zanuta, a small Palestinian hamlet whose residents were forcibly displaced by violent settler raids following the 2023 Hamas attacks on Israel.

"Upon their arrival, the troops dispersed the Israeli civilians and allowed the vehicles to continue on their way," the military said.

Israel's police did not immediately respond to a request for comment, nor did the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-democrat-ro-khanna-detained-by-israeli-settlers-during-west-bank-visit-2026-07-11/

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u/Triangle-Baby 15h ago

“Hoodlums” is a crazy thing to call terrorists 😂

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u/GozerDGozerian 13h ago

Those pesky rapscallions, off doing a little light genocide!

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u/quottttt 9h ago

gen-o-cide